The Jungle
$31.84
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
15 September 2006
Summary
An attractive new edition for this perennial classic.
In this powerful book, we enter the world of Jurgis Rudkus, a young Lithuanian immigrant who arrives in America fired with dreams of wealth, freedom, and opportunity. And we discover, with him, the astonishing truth about “Packingtown,” the busy, flourishing, filthy Chicago stockyards, where new-world visions perish in a jungle of human suffering.
Upton Sinclair, master of the “muckraking” novel, here explores the workingma…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780812976236 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0812976231 |
| Author: | Upton Sinclair, Jane Jacobs, Anthony Arthur |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Modern Library Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2006 |
| Weight: | 335g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 132mm x 23mm |
| Series: | Modern Library (Paperback) |
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“When people ask me what has happened in my long lifetime I do not refer them to the newspaper files and to the authorities, but to [Sinclair’s] novels.” - George Bernard Shaw
“When people ask me what has happened in my long lifetime I do not refer them to the newspaper files and to the authorities, but to [Sinclair’s] novels.” —George Bernard Shaw
About The Author
Upton Sinclair
Jane Jacobs is one of the most original economic and sociological thinkers of our day. Her books include the classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities and, most recently, The Nature of Economies. She lives in Toronto.
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